Re: COMPRESSION

Nathan J. Strange ([email protected])
Wed, 31 May 95 10:00:38 EST


>
> This is an interesting claim. Are you saying that your compression
> scheme may be further compressed by GZIP at the same compression
> ratio, to produce an even much smaller resulting file? I.e. the
> ASCII->tokenized->GZIP route makes a significantly smaller file than
> ASCII->GZIP?
>
>

I have just done this by hand on a couple of small VRML files
but I have found that ASCII->tokenized->GZIP is roughly 1/4 the
size of ASCII->GZIP... This seems to make sense to me because
the tokenized file has the same basic patterns as the full VRML
document, just the patterns are XX rather than SomeCoolNode {